We are into June now – that means it’s nearly summer!

What I read

May’s reads took me to 69 books, which is something like 28 books ahead on my goal of 100! I think I’ll have to increase my goal or I’ll hit it really early.

What I have read:

• The Bookshop of Memories – Elise Darcy
• Five Go to Demon’s Rocks
  Hard Times for the East End Library Girls (East End Library Girls #2) – Patricia McBride
• The District Nurses of Victoria Walk (District Nurses #1) – Annie Groves
• Spell Bound (Phoebe Winchester Mystery #2) – Gretchen Rue
• The Lighthouse Keeper  Alan K Baker
• Farewell to the East End (Call the Midwife #3) – Jennifer Worth
• The Wartime Book Club – Kate Thompson
• The Lost Bookshop – Evie Woods
• Five Have a Mystery to Solve
• The Little Penguin Bookshop – Joanna Toye
• Slayers – Amber Benson

I ended the month still working through:

• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• Poyums – Len Penny
• Girl Sleuth – Melanie Rehak
• The Castle of Adventure
• The Lighthouse Kid – Rhondda Kemp-Mottau

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What I watched

• We are up to ER season 11 now, and are still watching the latest series of Taskmaster.
• Tuesday nights we’ve been watching Is it Cake? season 3 – and we’re still not always sure what’s cake and what’s not!
• I watched all of Wednesday season 1 (and am looking forward to season 2 coming out) and started on Green Wing as its been years since I’ve watched that. I also watched He’s All That (again!) and Dodgeball. I started The Lost Symbol TV series but only got a few episodes in as it didn’t really capture my attention.
• With Brodie we watched the 1990 live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Although I loved the cartoon TV series I had never actually seen any of the movies before.
• I also began on series three of Malory Towers and reviewed the first two episodes, more to come this week.

What I did

• Visited the local zoo for the first time in a while and had a play at the park after.
• Visited Deep Sea World (not as big and impressive as I remember as a child, but the underwater tunnel with the sharks is still good) and then played some arcade games after.
• We made it to the beach and even into the water as we had some proper warm weather.
• We planted up some sunflower seeds and cress which are already growing well indoors.
• We rescued a cockatiel that we found out in the front garden – it had been spotted the evening before but had flown off when Ewan tried to get hold of it, but then we saw it again the next morning and this time he was able to pick it up as it was asleep. We put her into a box and kept an eye on her until the SSPCA were able to come and collect her, and thankfully she was looking a lot more lively by that point. I hope her owners have claimed her now – or that she’s gone to a new home.
• Brodie and I did a Lego micro build challenge, building tiny little builds and seeing if anyone could guess what they were.
• We went for a walk around Morton Lochs, visiting the hides and finding some geocaches.
• We took a trip to Arbroath to have lunch on the beach, play at the park, visit the Signal Tower Museum and play at the arcade. There was a haar just rolled in as we arrived but it was still reasonably warm!
• I did the Adventure Series jigsaw that I got for my Christmas. It was only 250 pieces so it took me about an hour (being a puzzle jigsaw there was no picture to go by!).

How was your May?